Tuesday, June 21, 2005
NEVER KNOW ABOUT ME
Call me crazy, but I wanted to tell you all of the different departments that are now represented in "picture" on my web site... (not in any order)
WILPEN Fire Station 45
WATERFORD Fire Station 44
LATROBE Fire Station 113 and Police Station 4-1
ARNOLD Fire Station 95 and Police Station 9-30
LLOYDSVILLE Fire Station 114
BAGGLEY Fire Station 108 (old, no longer in service)
NEW KENSINGTON Fire Station 56 (all)
LIGONIER Fire Station 43, Police Station 4-60 and Ambulance Station 760
MURRYSVILLE Fire Station 20
MEDIC 613
MEDIC 940
YOUNGSTOWN Fire Station 39
DERRY TOWNSHIP Fire Station 92
DERRY Fire Station 41
DARLINGTON Fire Station 42
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP Police Car 5-50
MUTUAL AID AMBULANCE SERVICE Greensburg and Derry
WESTMORELAND 911 Tower
ADELPHIA Cable Service Tower (sub)
ALLEGHNEY Power Company Relay Tower
CROWN COMMUNICATIONS Tower (one of many)
VIEW of Communications Relay Tower on the mountain top
VIEW ALL PHOTOS BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK then click on LOCAL PHOTOS.
Send in your photos to: news@k3sam.com
photos by K3SAM, TOPGUN and GMAN (with my thanks)
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Something else worth noting. I am designing a scanner antenna for 800 Mhz and for the hellof it I measure one of the antennas that came with my PRO-2096 scanners and found that it was (at minimum) exactly one half wavelength for 859 Mhz. 859 Mhz is about the average frequency in which the Westmoreland County Radio Control Channel operates on.
In case you are wondering, when fully extended it is one half wave of 176 Mhz, or the upper end of the commercial radio VHF band (Game Commission, etc..). Normally within a scanner when a VHF High or UHF frequency is programmed, the signal from the antenna is feed directly into the front end of the receiver board. When a VHF Low Band (33.70 Mhz or so) frequency is programmed in the signal from the antenna is first fed through a matching network to make up for the antenna size difference.
OK, that was on my mind and I couldn't sleep without... heck, I just couldn't sleep ! No excuses. Anyone have a night time sleep aid ?
DECODED,
K3SAM
WILPEN Fire Station 45
WATERFORD Fire Station 44
LATROBE Fire Station 113 and Police Station 4-1
ARNOLD Fire Station 95 and Police Station 9-30
LLOYDSVILLE Fire Station 114
BAGGLEY Fire Station 108 (old, no longer in service)
NEW KENSINGTON Fire Station 56 (all)
LIGONIER Fire Station 43, Police Station 4-60 and Ambulance Station 760
MURRYSVILLE Fire Station 20
MEDIC 613
MEDIC 940
YOUNGSTOWN Fire Station 39
DERRY TOWNSHIP Fire Station 92
DERRY Fire Station 41
DARLINGTON Fire Station 42
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP Police Car 5-50
MUTUAL AID AMBULANCE SERVICE Greensburg and Derry
WESTMORELAND 911 Tower
ADELPHIA Cable Service Tower (sub)
ALLEGHNEY Power Company Relay Tower
CROWN COMMUNICATIONS Tower (one of many)
VIEW of Communications Relay Tower on the mountain top
VIEW ALL PHOTOS BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK then click on LOCAL PHOTOS.
Send in your photos to: news@k3sam.com
photos by K3SAM, TOPGUN and GMAN (with my thanks)
+ + + + + + + + + +
Something else worth noting. I am designing a scanner antenna for 800 Mhz and for the hellof it I measure one of the antennas that came with my PRO-2096 scanners and found that it was (at minimum) exactly one half wavelength for 859 Mhz. 859 Mhz is about the average frequency in which the Westmoreland County Radio Control Channel operates on.
In case you are wondering, when fully extended it is one half wave of 176 Mhz, or the upper end of the commercial radio VHF band (Game Commission, etc..). Normally within a scanner when a VHF High or UHF frequency is programmed, the signal from the antenna is feed directly into the front end of the receiver board. When a VHF Low Band (33.70 Mhz or so) frequency is programmed in the signal from the antenna is first fed through a matching network to make up for the antenna size difference.
OK, that was on my mind and I couldn't sleep without... heck, I just couldn't sleep ! No excuses. Anyone have a night time sleep aid ?
DECODED,
K3SAM
